Lajos Kossuth Quotes
I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.
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If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.
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Whatever show is on, I dress in that designer's clothes. Some of them were totally unwearable.
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I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.
